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    Buzz Out Loud?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by hehe299792458, Dec 12, 2006.

  1. hehe299792458

    hehe299792458 Notebook Deity

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    Ever since I re-installed windows on my laptop, the hard drive seems to have garnered the special ability to emit an exceptionally annoying buzzing sound when I'm NOT doing hard drive intensive tasks (ie typing, browsing the internet). This sound seems to go away if I copy a large file or do other intensive tasks. I tried to adjust the speed in the BIOS, but that’s didn’t help. Any suggestions to fix this would be helpful as it's driving me crazy!!!
     
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    Maybe it senses that there is no user activity and system is idle so it goes into system maintenance mode and starts sort of defragmenting hard disk. just a guess!
     
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    I do have system mechanic installed, but I'm pretty sure it's I disabled the auto start functions in msconifg. I've never used a 7200 rpm hd on a notebook before, but doubt that's the speed of the hd is the problem. The weird thing about this is that it only started after I re-installed Windows. Is there something in the BIOS I should do, since I'm suspecting there’s something wrong with it?
     
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    Oh come on, 55 views and only 1 reply. Surely you guys can how a little more enthusiasm for this topic...
     
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    The following trick worked for my Latitude D620: Go into BIOS, find the setting that controls the speed of the USB controlers. Make sure it is set to high-speed instead of legacy compatibility.

    For some reason this completely eliminated the noise from my D620. Other D620 owners seem to have had the same success.
     
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    This seems to be a fairly common problem with Inspirons, but I hadn't heard of it on an XPS before.

    Something else to try if Pandaren's suggestion doesn't work is downloading Rightmark CPU clock Utility and turning on 'Run HTL command when OS is idle', it helped to reduce the noise on my 9400 almost completely.
     
    spartanpredator, Dec 14, 2006
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    I went into the BIOS and can't seem to find the option for the speed of the USB controller. How could I navigate to this. The most relevant thing I found was hard-drive speed.
     
    hehe299792458, Dec 14, 2006
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